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Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

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The five-bedroom house was conceived as a series of connected rock masses, oriented to maximise views of the surrounding landscape and arranged to create thermally protected communal zones on the interior. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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The Kitchen in This Pacific Northwest Retreat Is Made From Douglas Fir Felled On-Site

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Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc. Post it here.

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Skylab reveals design for their new Portland headquarters

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Image © Skylab Surrounding the warehouses will be a complex of garden spaces, including outdoor meeting and loun-ge areas, a 300-person performance and event area, a cultivation garden, an outdoor cooking zone, fi-re pits, as well as sport courts for pickleball, table tennis, and basketball.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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Just as the New York 1916 Zoning Resolution shaped the highrise tower type, California’s Energy Code can help shape the house type by being a framework for experimenting with its form and layout." "Its

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Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper reaches completion

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The building has quickly become one of, if not the most, visible structures on the Brooklyn skyline. Last year, SHoP principal Greg Pasquarelli told Dezeen in an exclusive interview that the structure, because of its special zoning, "would be kind of like the Empire State Building of Brooklyn." "We

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. The photography is by Here and Now Agency (HANA), Paul Vu.

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Salem Public Library Renovation by Hacker

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Photo © Lara Swimmer Design for Change To create a more pleasant, cohesive library experience for patrons, the design reimagines how different spaces with different functions relate to one another – staff spaces vs. public spaces, the needs of library sections serving different age groups, quiet zones, noisy zones, high-traffic areas.